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by netsp 17y ago
evolution is not directional
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by netsp 17y ago
I understand your frustration, but. China worries a lot of people because of the force they are becoming, culturally, militarily politically. I think people associate 'democracy' with all sorts of things that are not directly derivative, bu
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm not sure accelerated evolution is the right term, but the idea makes sense. Changing conditions exert selections pressures. Dietary changes would have been a substantial. Lactose tolerance, for example is almost certainly new.
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by netsp 17y ago
Even our age as a species (it's a range depending on which estimate you take and how widely you define species) is very young. Even less if you consider our long generations (which we are). A thousand generations is nothing on an evolutiona
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by netsp 17y ago
Venture capitalists have started pumping their remaining capital into hundreds of seed and early stage deals, looking for the next big thing... ...Large limited partners in venture funds, many of which are government affiliated like CALPE
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by netsp 17y ago
There is even a lively market in blog themes for individuals.
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by netsp 17y ago
True. At the end of the day, Zappos is/was really just an online shop. Amazon at least were the first/biggest online shop in a field where infinite shelf space means a lot. Shoe stores on the other hand, could easily have been bigger if big
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by netsp 17y ago
There are a few ideas that at least won't hurt, but the possibility exists that the working conditions of Chinese factory workers is not within your sphere of influence. The obvious way to achieve minimum working conditions is legislation.
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by netsp 17y ago
I think that market share is usually a bad way of looking at Apple's numbers. Macs are only x% of computers, but that means nothing when comparing with Windows or Dell. Apple sells the OS and the hardware. To look at it as market share, you
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by netsp 17y ago
Will a startup honestly answer all of these questions?
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by netsp 17y ago
Boycotting China wholesale is counter productive if you want to achieve better working conditions for Chinese workers.
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by netsp 17y ago
I assume you mean starting companies on a smaller base rather then simply taking smaller stakes.
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by netsp 17y ago
People with the ability to give good advice are probably an indispensable part of the system. But it does not necessarily follow that these specific people are. Then again, maybe that is the case. If so then the answer to the main questio
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by netsp 17y ago
That would still be subjective anecdote. The only non subjective you have to go by is this. Many people have decided that YC good for them.
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YC Clones - What Can they do?(netsp.posterous.com)
8 points by netsp 17y ago|5 comments
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by netsp 17y ago
That's an interesting definition of a pure business person.
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by netsp 17y ago
I don't understand this approach to criticism. You are saying that the cost/benefit equation doesn't makes sense. OK. This has been discussed before and you can expect get the same responses you have heard before and found unconvincing. If
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by netsp 17y ago
Basically the answer is yes (explicitly), you retain rights. Yes (explicitly), you can use the service for prototyping and yes, it is possible start with them and move some place cheaper once it makes financial sense.
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by netsp 17y ago
I think that for the most part, it is expected that some sort of geo-engineering (call it what you like) will take place.
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by netsp 17y ago
It would be very interesting if one of these technologies eventually made carbon capture so cheap that multiple countries could single-handedly afford to reduce carbon levels to whatever they wanted. At that point carbon levels become an ac
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by netsp 17y ago
Globalisation is peace in the sense that creating a country out of petty kingdoms or a nation out of tribes is peace. That doesn't mean you don't have civil strife or rebellions.
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by netsp 17y ago
The crime is there because the only way to get marijuana is illegally. A market exists. Profits exist. Anyone serving that market is by definition criminal. Decriminalising personal use (but not sale, import, cultivation, etc.) doesn't fund
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by netsp 17y ago
Especially since: - Such a lively market already exists. - People can grow their own.
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by netsp 17y ago
On the other hand, I think a lot of estimates on what marijuana taxes would take in are overestimated. In any case, enforcement savings would long before taxes. Possibly alone. Outright legalisation is rarely really on the table. It's decri
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by netsp 17y ago
The Scorpion & the Frog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
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by netsp 17y ago
It might be a interesting idea options other then subscription. For example, many someone might want to use this to audit a site. You need a data collection period (maybe collect data on x visits and then stop) then access to the analysis t
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by netsp 17y ago
I can only see the summary report in the demo.
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by netsp 17y ago
How so?
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by netsp 17y ago
That would satisfy many thoughtful people's definition of altruism.
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by netsp 17y ago
I started to write a comment on how/why this could easily be a business. I have recently been involved in this area. But then I remembered some interview with the founder of betterworldbooks.com: "This idea would be best embodied in a compa

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